Not everyone can become an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs are rare people with rare skills. Their skills are a combination of genetics, upbringing and education. It is because their skills are rare that their creations are unique and their contributions are often greater to society. How can we forget another element? That is why they make so much money. Their crispness, inventiveness, spark and effort allows them to gain much but in the process we all benefit from entrepreneurs. But because envy, not greed, is the most destructive force in modern society, all we see is that they make more money than what we decree is their need. We want to cut them to size, confiscate more of their wrongfully acquired gains for the public benefit. Yes, we become so morally righteous in our scavenger quest that we invent other terms to soften what is nothing more than a vice. We call it social justice when it is just envy. We dismiss the public gain the entrepreneur offers by simply being one and the vote we already castes for him every tone we buy the product. Their profit is all we see, the surplus value as Marx called what is simply a due reward for unique expertise. Yes, my friends, that is why capitalism can be so successful in meeting better the needs of more people than any other system and we still attack it as uncaring. We still go around looking for a new model where our envy can be placated. So intense is our envy of others that even uber philosopher John Rawls is upset by the tyranny of genes. That is, it is not fair that one was burn with more intelligence or more of any of the traits making the entrepreneur unique. We must enact cosmic justice. Your talents are not yours, after all, they belong to the community--which means that government can punish you for thinking that your character belongs to you. Welcome to the grand enterprise of communitarianism.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 14:41:01 +0000
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